Passed along by Shebeen Club member Monique Trottier
Memory Festival Launch Party
Remembrance Day: Sunday, November 11, 2007
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Listel
1300 Robson Street, Vancouver
Free admission
The Memory Festival is a free-floating series of public events focussed on public and private memory, and the questions that surround acts of memory and forgetting.
Vancouver book designer and writer Barbara Hodgson is appearing with slides from her new book Trading in Memories, http://www.tradinginmemories.com
Trading in Memories is Barbara Hodgson’s collage of souvenirs and travel stories from around the world about lost and found art picked up off the street, treasures discovered at flea markets and documents uncovered from between the pages of other finds.
Other special guests presenting readings, slide shows, exhibits
and salubrious conversation include:
Stephen Osborne, writer
Faith Moosang, artist
John Paskievich, photographer
Dan Francis, historian
Mary Schendlinger, writer
Goran Basaric, photographer
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, artist
Sandra Shields, writer
Jamie Long, playwright,
Craig Hall, actor
David Campion, photographer
Katherine McManus, university administrator
Anne Grant, photographer
Festival homepage:
http://www.geist.com/memoryfestival
raincoaster 
I really love the name of this festival.
That both my mom and dad were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s may have something to do with it.
~m
the event yesterday at the Listel was like the gathering of many streams pooling together with the promise of many future movements
I wish I could have gone, but I was double-booked.